If you planned to bake something tasty, then stop at the recipe for a lemon cake. It is not more difficult to cook than other types of such dessert, but a refreshing and unusual taste distinguishes it among the masses of the brethren.
Cottage cheese-lemon cake with sour cream
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese fine-grained - 300 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sour cream - 120 ml;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sugar - half a century;
- butter - 100 g;
- flour - 1 item;
- baking powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
Zestru one lemon rubbed on a fine grater (make sure that the white flesh does not hit, otherwise the cake will be bitter). Eggs grind with sugar, add a tablespoon of lemon juice, sour cream and cottage cheese. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients, and then add them to the curd.
We knead the dough with several movements so that it remains slightly uneven. We put it into a baking dish and cook for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Delicious lemon cake is served with several slices of lemon and mint, for decoration. For greater juiciness, it is good to add 50 ml of vegetable oil to the dough, and to add lemon notes to the aroma with orange, by intervening a little bit of zest of this citrus fruit in the dough.
Lemon-chocolate cupcake
Topping to lemon cake can serve almost anything: jam, raisins, nuts and, of course, chocolate. Perhaps, at the last we will stop ...
Ingredients:
- butter - 200 g;
- sugar - 230 g;
- flour - 230 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- chocolate crumb - 100 g;
- baking powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- kefir - 120 ml;
- salt - ½ tsp.
Preparation
Mild oil whisk together with sugar for 10 minutes (it is better to use a blender) so that it is saturated with air. Next, we interpose the eggs, slowly, one by one, each time kneading the mixture by hand. Add the zest, juice of one lemon and chocolate chips.
Now proceed to the dry ingredients: add salt and baking powder to the flour, mix the mass very carefully to make sure that the cupcake rises evenly. In the oil mixture, pour half of the flour, lightly mix it to homogeneity, and after adding the second half, mix again and infuse kefir. Try not to interfere with the cake for too long, after adding flour, otherwise the resulting gluten will make baking hard and rubber. Therefore, once you have achieved uniformity, fill in kefir.
Lemon cake with chocolate on kefir is baked for 45 minutes at 180 degrees. After preparation it can be poured with syrup or glaze and decorated with a confectionery powder.
Lemon cake with raisins - recipe
Cupcakes with raisins are just a classic of the genre that will always be appropriate and guaranteed to taste if not to everyone, then to the majority. And here's how to make a simple and delicate lemon cake with raisins, you'll learn from the recipe below.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- butter - 225 g;
- sugar - 225 g;
- raisins - 50 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- lemons - 2 pieces;
- flour is self-raised - 225 g.
For impregnation:
- lemon juice;
- powdered sugar - 85 g.
Preparation
Mix the room temperature oil with sugar. Add 4 eggs and continue stirring gently until smooth. Now it's time to fill up the zest of two lemons, a little raisins, and also add a half of lemon juice and sprinkle the self-rising flour (it can be noticed with a simple flour mixed with a tablespoon of baking powder). Lemon cake is cooked in the oven for 45-50 minutes at 180 degrees in a greased baking dish.
To make the dessert more juicy and sweet, it is impregnated with a mixture of sugar and juice of the remaining one and a half lemons, while it is still hot. Bon Appetit!